About

I'm Elianne Alblas. I'm an interior designer, but probably not the kind you're picturing.

I've spent twelve years shaping spaces. Restaurants, offices, hotels, homes. I'm self-taught, which means I never learned the 'right' way to do things. I learned by doing, by looking, by paying obsessive attention to how a room makes people feel the moment they walk in.

A few years ago something shifted. I started noticing that the conversations about workspace design were always about aesthetics and efficiency. Open plan or private offices. Standing desks or sitting desks. Warm lighting or cool lighting.

But nobody was talking about what really happens. How fluorescent light exhausts your nervous system before lunch. How an open floor plan can feel like a warzone if your brain processes sound differently. How the colour of your walls is doing something to your mood whether you chose it deliberately or not.

I went deep. Environmental psychology. Neuroscience. Neuro-inclusive design. Not to become a researcher, but because I needed to understand why some spaces work and others don't. And because the answers were there, buried in academic papers that nobody in design was reading.

Now I translate that research into language that makes sense and changes that people can actually make. Through audits, consulting, and speaking.

I work from Utrecht, the Netherlands. I speak Dutch and English. I believe every space has the potential to work better for the people in it, and that starts with understanding what it's doing right now.